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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
In an e-mail to The Des Moines Register, former Gov. Tom Vilsack put to rest the rumors that President-elect Barack Obama may name him the new Secretary of Agriculture.
In fact, Vilsack said he has never even been contacted by Obama or any of his aides about a position in the new administration.
“I would have to speculate that I was in fact in the running and further speculate as to why I was no longer. I do not think it prudent or appropriate to speculate about either,” Vilsack said.
At one point Washington Post columnist Al Kamen went so far as to call Vilsack a “near shoo-in” for the job.
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